The North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1994

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1993/2639 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 797

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1994

Made

17th March 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 126(3) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1994, and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2.  For paragraph (2) of article 3 of the North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993(3) (nature and functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(2) The trust’s functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more health authorities) shall be—

(a) to own and manage hospital accommodation and services provided at Keycol Hospital, Newington, Nr Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8NG and associated hospitals;

(b) to manage community health services provided from Keycol Hospital, Newington, Nr Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8NG and to own the associated premises.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

17th March 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the North Kent Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 to include the ownership and management of hospital accommodation and services among the functions of the NHS trust established by that Order. As this Order has been made to correct the omission of those functions from that Order, it is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Order.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).

(2)

1990 c. 19.

(3)

S.I. 1993/2639.